Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2009
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These featured pictures, as scheduled below, appeared as the picture of the day (POTD) on the English Wikipedia's Main Page in May 2009. Individual sections for each day on this page can be linked to with the day number as the anchor name (e.g. [[Wikipedia:Picture of the day/May 2009#1]]
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May 1
A structural worker bolts beams on the framework during the construction of the Image credit: Lewis Hine
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May 2
The Hispano Aviación HA-1112 was a license-built version of the Messerschmitt Bf 109G-2 developed in Spain during and after World War II. The Spanish government in 1942 contracted with Messerschmitt to supply Bf 109G-2 materials, but due to difficulties incurred by the war, the company only delivered 25 incomplete airframes to Hispano Aviación. The plane shown in this photo has been rebuilt to resemble a Luftwaffe Bf 109, except without the Nazi swastika. Photo credit: Kogo
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May 3
A cartoon from 1814 depicting the exile of Image credit: J. Phillips
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May 4
Ludwig van Beethoven's manuscript sketch for Piano Sonata No. 28, Op. 101, Movement IV, Geschwind, doch nicht zu sehr und mit Entschlossenheit (Allegro), in his own handwriting. The 20-minute piece was completed in 1816 and was dedicated to the pianist Baroness Dorotea Ertmann.
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May 5
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May 6
A circular wire brush mounted to a 205 mm (8.1 in) bench grinder with a tool rest in front. Wire brushes are typically made of a large number of steel wire bristles and are used for removing paint and rust. Photo credit:
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May 7
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May 8
The Photo credit: Joaquim Alves Gaspar
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May 9
A film, reenacting supposed propaganda of the Spanish–American War. American newspapers ran stories of a sensationalist nature, often without confirming facts; this type of journalism became known as yellow journalism , which helped to precipitate military action by the U.S.
Listen to: When Johnny Comes Marching Home, an American patriotic song recorded during the war Film: Edison Manufacturing; Audio: Emile Berliner
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May 10
hominians in Western Europe have been found. Two archaeological levels are visible in this shot: The first one is TD-10, and it is believed to be a Homo heidelbergensis camp, about 300,000 years old. The second is TD-6, located under the scaffolding (bottom centre). The first remains of the new species mentioned by the Atapuerca team, Homo antecessor , were found there, about 800,000 years old.
Photo credit: Mario Modesto Mata
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May 11
A ca. 1850 Japanese woodblock print of Somagahana Fuchiemon, a sumo wrestler. The Japanese tradition of sumo is an ancient one, having originally been associated with the Shinto religion. Over time it evolved into a form of wrestling combat, and then into a sport. Most of the current rules of the sport developed in the early Edo period. Current professional sumo tournaments began in the Tomioka Hachiman Shrine in 1684, and then were held in the Ekō-in in the Edo period. They have been held in the Ryōgoku Kokugikan since 1909. Artist: Kunisada
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May 12
An government .
Photo credit: John Vachon, FSA
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May 13
This image (when viewed in full size) contains 1 million pixels, each of a different color. The human eye can distinguish about 10 million different colors, most of which are outside the gamut of this image. Image credit: J-E Nyström
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May 14
A temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere , growing up to 80 centimetres (31 in) tall.
Photo credit: Richard Bartz
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May 15
A map drawn based on data collected by public auction and creating the country's first national park .
Map credit: USGS
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May 16
A young
Photo credit: Joaquim Alves Gaspar
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May 17
The Photo credit: Mdf
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May 18
Photo credit: Frances Benjamin Johnston
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May 19
An 1884 railroads reached Tampa to the south, and after an 1896 hurricane and a large fire later that year. The city is now best known as a tourist resort.
Image credit: J. J. Stoner
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May 20
Gordon Dam is a 140-metre (460 ft) tall asymmetrical double curvature arch dam on the Gordon River in Tasmania, Australia. Lake Gordon (right) was formed by the dam's construction. Photo credit:
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May 21
William the Conqueror , is the oldest in continuous occupation.
Photo credit: David Iliff
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May 22
The Oregon Convention Center is located on the east side of the Willamette River in the Lloyd District neighborhood of Portland, Oregon. It is best known for the twin spire towers which provide light into the building's interior, and which are also upwardly lit on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Photo credit: Eric Baetscher
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May 23
An ash plume drifts from Mount Cleveland, a stratovolcano in the Aleutian Islands off the coast of Alaska, on May 23, 2006. Astronaut Jeffrey Williams, flying over the event on board the International Space Station, was the first to notice the eruption, even before the Alaska Volcano Observatory. Photo credit: Jeffrey Williams
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May 24
A 1935 photo of a family of Photo credit: Dorothea Lange
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May 25
Confederate Army slipped away during the night of May 3.
Photo credit: James F. Gibson
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May 26
Photo credit: Joaquim Alves Gaspar
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May 27
South Wind, Clear Sky, the second of Katsushika Hokusai's Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. This ukiyo-e woodblock print was made ca. 1930 from the original drawings made ca. 1830 by Hokusai. There are actually 46 prints in the series, the last 10 having been added at a later date due to popular demand.
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May 28
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May 29
Built in 1859 and at 4,880 square metres (52,500 sq ft) in area, the Temperate House in Kew Gardens is the largest surviving Victorian glass structure in the world, and houses an extensive collection of temperate plants, including the world's largest indoor plant, the Chilean wine-palm. Photo credit: David Iliff
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May 30
L'Innocence, a painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau that uses a young child and a lamb as symbols of innocence. Although the term encompasses a number of meanings, the one depicted here is a state of unknowing, where one's experience is lesser, in either a relative view to social peers, or by an absolute comparison to a more common normative scale. In contrast to ignorance, it is generally viewed as a positive term, connoting an optimistic view of the world, in particular one where the lack of knowledge stems from a lack of wrongdoing, whereas greater knowledge comes from doing wrong.
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May 31
The . The blue eyes on this individual are uncommon among the species. Photo credit: Tom Friedel
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